八路军
Traditional form:
八路軍
Pinyin (reading):
Bālùjūn
Definitions:
- Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Characters:
- 八 - eight; all around, all sides
- 路 - road, path, street; journey
- 军 - army, military; soldiers, troops
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